On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 11:34:38AM +0100, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:34:38 +0100 > From: Rudolf Sykora <rsyk...@disroot.org> > To: Stefan Hagen <sh+open...@codevoid.de>, OpenBSD Misc Mailing List > <misc@openbsd.org> > Cc: Pierre-Emmanuel Andre <p...@openbsd.org> > Subject: Re: pinentry-tty in OpenBSD? to be used with emacs > > > rsyk...@disroot.org writes: > > December 8, 2019 5:45 PM, "Stefan Hagen" <sh+open...@codevoid.de> wrote: > > > Stefan Hagen wrote: > > > >> Rudolf Sykora wrote: > >>> On linux, I believe, there is a pinentry-tty program, but that one is > >>> not available on OpenBSD. > >> > >> Have you tried pinentry-curses? I'm using it on my remote machines > >> to decrypt passwords in my password-store. Works well so far. > > > >> Well, the attached patch enables pinentry-tty in security/pinentry. > > I tried pinentry-curses. Now I was able to try pinentry-tty, > too. However, with both I apparently have the same problem. The prompt > for passphrase is just thrown somewhere into the emacs window, and I am > not able to enter the password (emacs most probably doesn't know about > the request for passphrase, it tries to interpret keypresses as commands). > > I even tried to enable pinentry-emacs in the pinentry Makefile; it > is built. But when I choose it for the pinentry-program in > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, at the moment when the passphrase should be > entered, I get the message > gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry. > > > Thanks for any more help. > > Ruda >
You can try to add "allow-emacs-pinentry" to your gpg-agent.conf and reconnect gpg-agent and retry. Relevant discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/68xtx1/reliable_way_of_setting_up_gpg_password_input_in/dh2ozi2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
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